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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10, World of Unknowing and The Habits of Self-Consciousness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lucy call her mother?
(a) Visitor Extraordinaire.
(b) Only Friend.
(c) Patient Visitor.
(d) Best Friend.

2. How is her second week of chemo different from her first?
(a) She tries eating something when she gets home.
(b) She invites friends over.
(c) She does not become as violently ill.
(d) She goes directly to bed once she gets home, refusing to even try to eat anything.

3. Why are Tuesdays the best days of the week?
(a) The worst part of the nausea has past.
(b) She gets to eat solid foods.
(c) She can have visitors.
(d) She has forgotten the pain of the chemo.

4. What does Lucy's family begin calling Friday?
(a) D-Day.
(b) C-Day.
(c) Freaky Friday.
(d) F-Day.

5. Why does she scratch herself with a rusty nail?
(a) She thinks tetanus would be preferable to the chemo treatments.
(b) She wants others to feel sorry for her.
(c) She has gone insane.
(d) She cannot stop the itching any other way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Swinger die?

2. About whom does Lucy feel especially guilty?

3. What happens when Lucy's father becomes ill?

4. What does Lucy create near the garage in what she calls "a small island of grass between the sea of driveway asphalt and the front walk of cement?"

5. What does Lucy wonder is what keeps her from seeing a sign from God?

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